PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE SPECIAL

Tears and trauma for the victims of the earthquake. Photo - AFP/Getty Images

We look at the trauma faced by the Southern families with no news about loved ones caught up in the South Asia earthquake.

In the aftermath of the October 8 earthquake disaster, money and support are desperately needed to help the victims of the crisis.

Help is also needed to assist those still living in the worst-hit areas of Pakistan.

We look at how families in the region are responding to the disaster, and how they are coping with their fears about relatives missing in the aftermath of the earthquake.

Inside Out South focuses on Reading's taxi drivers who are predominately from the earthquake region.

Taxi driver Tahir Abdullah fights back tears, "When you lose your loved ones, you realise how small this life is".

Twenty-nine-year-old Tahir is one of the many Reading taxi drivers originally from the region affected by the South Asia earthquake.

His cousin who died in the earthquake was the same age.

Now he and his fellow cabbies are playing their part to help those caught up in the tragedy.

Inside Out South focuses on a community within a community.

It is estimated that 70% of Reading taxi drivers are from Pakistan or Kashmir.

We talk to two of them about the loss of family and the devastating effect on their lives.

"She still hears the screaming", laments Kurshid Ahmed, recalling his six-year-old niece’s cries for help while her mother lay helpless under the rubble.

The little girl died.

Her mother has shattered legs and is still in hospital. Kurshid is setting up a trust fund to help the two surviving children.

In the aftermath of the October 8 earthquake disaster, money is desperately needed to help the victims of the crisis and those still living in the worst-hit areas of Pakistan to get back on their feet.

We look at how families here are responding to the disaster - united in grief, united in the resolve to help.

Links relating to this story:

• BBC News - Quake aftermath
  BBC Asian Network - South Asia Quake
  Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC)
  Foreign Office
  ICRC
  Islamic Relief
  Department for International Development
  Muslim Aid
  Oxfam
  Kashmir International Relief Fund

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